If you're in the mood for a warm-hearted Irish stag party comedy drama, then look no further.

All the ingredients are that you would expect are here, from U2 music to dodgy hats – and more.

The Stag is not going to win any Oscars given its unconvincing set-up and nagging nature, but you’d have to have had a sense of humour bypass for writer-director John Butler not to put a smile on your face at various points.

Especially when he realises that he’ll be accompanied on the rural adventure by his future brother-in-law from hell, The Machine (Peter McDonald).

And so off they go, withpals including Simon (Brian Gleeson) and long-term couple Big Kevin (Andrew Bennett) and Little Kevin (Michael Legge) – and the Machine encouraging the idea that phones belong in a bag and a compass in the lake.

“We need to get lost to be reborn,” he advises.

Complete with references to Cardiff, a brilliant fire scene and Davin wondering if he’ll ever get married himself (his latest girlfriends left eye becomes slightly lazy when she laughs), The Stag has details as well as broad laughs.

The script turns decidedly adult at times, but the content, themes and dilemmas and childish sense of fun almost give this more in common with Nativity 2 than The Hangover series.